The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge; once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less.
ARTHUR MILLERThe structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.
More Arthur Miller Quotes
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It is my art. I am better at it than I ever was. And I will do it as long as I can. When you reach a certain age you can slough off what is unnecessary and concentrate on what is. And why not?
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Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author.
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I love her too, but our neuroses just don’t match.
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The problem was to sustain at any cost the feeling you had in the theater that you were watching a real person, yes, but an intense condensation of his experience, not simply a realistic series of episodes.
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What is the most innocent place in any country? Is it not the insane asylum? These people drift through life truly innocent, unable to see into themselves at all.
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Don’t be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.
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I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn’t very difficult.
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A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
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I think it’s a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one’s self.
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The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.
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Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
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Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.
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A suicide kills two people, Maggie, that’s what it’s for!
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Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You’ll never get out of the jungle that way.
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In the theater, while you recognized that you were looking at a house, it was a house in quotation marks. On screen, the quotation marks tend to be blotted out by the camera.
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